Cannot delete file: filename too long
Sometime ago, I made a copy of a hierarchy of folders under my "Users" folder to another drive as a quick backup. I no longer need this copy of folders and files. So when I tried to delete these files I got a message that some filenames are too long. When
I look at these files they mostly seem to be part of Internet Explorer temp directory, and also some files used by Mozilla Thunderbird, so they were likely created by these utilities on purpose. I cannot rename them to shorter names, or even move them to lower
folders. I can't even copy their filenames to show you what these filenames are! When I use the DOS prompt's "dir /x" command these files do not even have any 8.3 short filenames either, which I could've used to delete them with. There are over 400 of these
files!
I know what the problem is, the Windows OS has a limit of somewhere around 250 characters for filenames and complete pathnames. I've seen some utilities advertised saying that they can delete these files, but they all require money. Anything that's free?
Yousuf Khan
Hi,
It is just for testing. It is good since the files can be deleted in Linux.
However, if you don't have Linux, it needs to find the way to delete the files under Windows.
Since the files are located in Internet Explorer temp directory, you could use Disk Cleanup to clear the Temporary Internet Files.
Also, check if the following KB is helpful. It has several methods. Go to check if 8.3 name creation is disabled.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320081
Best Regards,
L.S
Regarding it being in the Internet Explorer temp directory, it actually wasn't. Remember I said in the original posting that this was in a backup directory of these directories, so Disk Cleanup has no way of knowing that this belongs to Internet Explorer
or anything else. Also there was a Thunderbird directory having the same issues as well, which Disk Cleanup wouldn't have touched no matter what.
Okay, I checked out the state of the filesystem registry. The "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" entry in the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem" is set to non-zero, meaning the feature is in effect. Interestingly it was set to 2
rather than 1, but I doubt that makes a difference.
Even if I disable this feature right now, all previously created files still won't be assigned the 8.3 filenames, just only those files that are newly created will have the 8.3 filenames available.
Yousuf Khan
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File name too long cannot copy (cont'd)
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Since this is an ongoing unsolved issue, and the thread was locked, it continues here.
It is ever so easy to create a long file/path using explorer.exe as will be shown below.
What needs to be solved is, what is an easy way (no, not by listing out all the files in a directory to a text file and counting characters), perhaps using a shell extension, to find out which files in a directory and it's subdirectories will be (or were)
too long to copy, (and then perhaps even copying those over either intact or renamed)?
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I'm running the 7100 build...enjoying it except for one big thing:
While attempting to copy 402gb from my main storage volume onto a spare 500gb drive (for the purpose of changing to a new RAID array) I've come across something that I would expect a Windows 98 OS to give me.
It tells me that a file has TOO LONG of a file name, then provides with two unhelpful options: SKIP or CANCEL
I never had XP give me an issue like this at all, so what gives? And while some specific files did have long file names (such as for songs, etc.) it had 7 issues with folders stating that their name was too long, but in fact they were not since they were
titled '07-06-07' for the date that I dumped the audio files in them. However, they may have contained FILES with long file names though.
Anyone else get this same situation? Perhaps the RTM version does not do this? Can anyone verify this regarding their install of the RC or the RTM?
It made it through 400gb out of the 402gb transfer.
I'm just happy to see that it doesn't spazz out about an issue like this until it has done all the other transfers that it can do because it saves the issues it has with files until the very end. In XP it would spazz about it the moment it came across it
causing the transfer process to halt.
Since long path/file names can so easily be created on Win7, it might be useful to see a typical way this happens, which might then give clues how to work with them.
In Windows Vista, we learnt from:
File names and file name extensions: frequently asked questions that:
Windows usually limits file names to 260 characters. But the file name must actually be shorter than that, since the complete path (such as C:\Program Files\filename.txt) is included in this character count.
In Windows 7, we are told here:
File names and file name extensions: frequently asked questions that:
It depends on the length of the complete path to the file (such as C:\Program Files\filename.txt). Windows limits a single path to 260 characters. This is why you might occasionally get an error when copying a file with a very long file name to a location
that has a longer path than the file's original location.
From the Windows Dev Center - Desktop, we read about Maximum Path Length Limitation here:
Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces
This helps us understand why a folder can be a maximum of 244 characters, from the defined 260 length of MAX_PATH as follows:
260 minus C:\ (3) minus <NUL> (1) = 256
256 minus 8.3 file name (12) = 244
We also learn there that: The Windows API has many functions that also have Unicode versions to permit an extended-length path for a maximum total path length of 32,767 characters.
And we read the claim that: The shell and the file system have different requirements. It is possible to create a path with the Windows API that the shell user interface is not be able to interpret properly.
There is also a comment below this document that reads: In a previous iteration of this document, it is mentioned that The Unicode versions of several functions permit a maximum path length of approximately 32,000 characters composed of components up to
255 characters in length. This information is now gone.
So we are in a position where the file system and Windows API can create long path/flies that the shell cannot handle.
But then we need to be able to handle it, so a little exploration might lead to a better understanding of how to do this.
For most tasks being performed on long folder/files, Windows 7 and other Windows programs balk when the Path+Filename length > 260
Let's create a long path/file.
Create a folder called A at the root of a Drive.
Create a sub-folder of A called: B
Create a sub-folder of B called: C
Make a FILE in sub-folder C called (no spaces or break, one long continuous string): 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J 123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T
123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X123456.txt
Rename sub-folder C to the string (no spaces or break, one long continuous string) (The actual directory created will be slightly shorter than this full length): 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J
123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T 123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X123456789Y123456789Z
Rename sub-folder B to the same full string above. (The actual directory created will be slightly shorter than this full length but 2 characters longer than the step above.)
Rename folder A to that same full original string. (Again the actual directory created will be slightly shorter than this full length but 2 characters longer than the step above.)
You now have the lovely file placed at (the breaks are just so it fits into the screen):
C:\123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J 123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T 123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X1234\ 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J
123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T 123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X12\ 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J 123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T
123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X\ 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J 123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T 123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X123456.txt
You have a folder length of over 700 and a file length of over 250 for a total of over 950
However you will notice that each folder, when created, could only be a maximum of 247 charachters including the path (example C:\ , & C:\A , & C:\A\B
This only applies backwards, that is up the path. It did not matter what was further down the path.
Now, you can't easily access or rename the file, but you can rename the folders easily.
For best results, start renaming from the top of the Tree, working down the subfolders, because renaming from down up will limit you, and in fact won't work if the folder lengths are too long.
So how might knowing this help us?
Well, to copy this long_file from the C:\ drive to the D:\ drive, and keeping the path structure, this should work:
Note the name of the top folder. Rename it to something very short, say: A (Make sure C:\A does not exist)
Note the name of the 2nd folder. Rename it to something very short, say: B (Make sure C:\A\B does not exist)
Note the name of the 3rd folder. Rename it to something very short, say: C (Make sure C:\A\B\C does not exist)
Make sure D:\A does not exist - then copy the A folder on disk C: to disk D: (which gives you D:\A\B\C\long_file
Rename D:\A\B\C to D:\A\B\Original_3rd_Folder_name
Rename D:\A\B to D:\A\B\Original_2nd_Folder_name
Rename D:\A to D:\Original_top_Folder_name
Rename C:\A\B\C back to their original names, in this same reverse order starting with C, then B, then A
Note: If using Explorer, at some points you might have to press the F5 refresh key.
This is of course how you might copy such long path/files without using the other more "easy" techniques for the "normal" everyday user like:
sharing a sub-folder
using the commandline to assign a drive letter by means of SUBST
using AddConnectionunder VB to assign a drive letter to a path
using the "\\?\" prefix to a path string to tell the Windows APIs to disable all string parsing and to send the string that follows it straight to the file system
and so on.
See how simple Windows can be for Dummies!
But then, how can we know that files to be copied exceed this MAX_PATH? Or also after a copy has taken place, know exactly which files that have NOT been copied because of exceeding the MAX_PATH limit, and then a procedure to copy these either by renaming
them, or by copying them intact as they are?
There have been suggestions to use
LongPathTool, but this does not have a facility to check a series of folders and tell you which files are going to be caught by the error when copying. So once a copy has taken place using Windows 7, one does not know which files did not get copied, and
where exactly they are located.
Neither does the free
Old Path Scanner do that. It can only check for overly long directory paths, but misses out when the directory path is within limits, but adding in the file name puts it out of bounds.
So, as shown above, it is ever so easy to create a long file/path using explorer.exe
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3. Here's how you sort out the "bad" from the "good":
4. Let's say you want to copy a folder ..."Football" ...that has five layers of subfolders; each subfolder contains numerous files:
C:/1 Football / 2 teams/ 3 players/ 4 stats/ 5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong
There are five levels root "1 football" with subfolders 2, 3, 4 and lastly "5 injuries"
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select "1 football" ....cut....select target folder....paste
("cut" command means as the files are copied to the target destination, the file is deleted from the source location)
Hint: avoid "cut" and "paste" to a target folder that is itself a sub/sub/sub folder ...that compounds the "characters over the limit" problem ...because the characters in the sub/sub/sub folder are included in the "file name
character limit"...instead "paste" to a C:/ root directory.
Suppose in the middle of this operation...error pops up: "5 files have file names that are too long" Skip or cancel?
select "skip" ...and let operation finish
6. Now go back and look at the source location: since the software allows only the "good" "short name" files to be copied (and because you "skipped" the "bad" "Long name" files so they are not copied or deleted) ...all that remains
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C:/ 1 football / 2 teams /3 players /4 stats /5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong
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private static CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder(); // Pattern used to parse lines
private static Pattern linePattern
= Pattern.compile(".*\r?\n"); // The input pattern that we're looking for
private static Pattern pattern; // Compile the pattern from the command line
private static void compile(String pat) {
try {
pattern = Pattern.compile(pat);
} catch (PatternSyntaxException x) {
System.err.println(x.getMessage());
System.exit(1);
} // Use the linePattern to break the given CharBuffer into lines, applying
// the input pattern to each line to see if we have a match
private static void grep(File f, CharBuffer cb) {
Matcher lm = linePattern.matcher(cb);// Line matcher
Matcher pm = null;// Pattern matcher
int lines = 0;
while (lm.find()) {
lines++;
CharSequence cs = lm.group(); // The current line
if (pm == null)
pm = pattern.matcher(cs);
else
pm.reset(cs);
if (pm.find())
System.out.print(f + ":" + lines + ":" + cs);
if (lm.end() == cb.limit())
break;
} // Search for occurrences of the input pattern in the given file
private static void grep(File f) throws IOException { // Open the file and then get a channel from the stream
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
FileChannel fc = fis.getChannel(); // Get the file's size and then map it into memory
int sz = (int)fc.size();
MappedByteBuffer bb = fc.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, sz); // Decode the file into a char buffer
CharBuffer cb = decoder.decode(bb); // Perform the search
grep(f, cb); // Close the channel and the stream
fc.close();
// Try deleting the file =================================
boolean deleted = f.delete();
if (!(deleted)) {
System.err.println("Could not delete file " + f.getName());
System.exit(4);
// End try deleting file =================================
} public static void main(String[] args) {
if (args.length < 2) {
System.err.println("Usage: java Grep pattern file...");
return;
compile(args[0]);
for (int i = 1; i < args.length; i++) {
File f = new File(args);
try {
grep(f);
} catch (IOException x) {
System.err.println(f + ": " + x);Here is the minimal code that demonstrates this. It opens the file specified on the command line, maps it to memory, prints it out, and then tries to delete the file.
There is no question about calling close on a File object. The close method is invoked on a stream or a channel. In the case of a channel, it should automatically close the stream. However, in this code I am closing the stream and the channel.
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.*;
import java.nio.channels.*;
import java.nio.charset.*;
public class testFileDelete {
public static void main(String[] args) {
FileInputStream fis = null;
if (args.length < 1) {
System.err.println("Usage: java testFileDelete <filename>");
System.exit(1);
File f = new File(args[0]);
try {
// Open the file
fis = new FileInputStream(f);
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
System.err.println("Error! " + ex.getMessage());
System.exit(2);
try {
// Get a channel from the stream
FileChannel fc = fis.getChannel();
// Map the file into memory
MappedByteBuffer bb = fc.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, (int)fc.size());
// Do something interesting here. For this example, just print the
// contents of the file.
// Decode the file into a char buffer, so we can print the contents.
Charset cs = Charset.forName("8859_1");
CharsetDecoder cd = cs.newDecoder();
CharBuffer cb = cd.decode(bb);
// Now print it out to standard output
System.out.print(cb);
// Close the channel and the stream
fc.close();
// Close the input stream even though closing the
// channel should do this
fis.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
System.err.println("Error! " + ex.getMessage());
System.exit(3);
// Done processing file. Now delete it.
boolean deleted = f.delete();
if (!(deleted)) {
System.err.println("Could not delete file " + f.getName());
System.exit(2);
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